employement changing hours refused

pthierry2000

Hello

I lost my job 3 weeks ago and I managed to find a new job but the working hours are differents and my partners have to changed her working hours but her manager refused and tell her to think about it or to resign.
I used to work week day until 3pm for 5 years and no week end. We have a 2 years old baby so when I was not working I was looking after her and giving my partner the time to work. She was working all day sunday and monday and tuesday evening and we been doing that since for around 2 years.
My new job are ok for giving me monday and tuesday off but I have to work week end.
My partner explain all situation to her manager and asked her if she could change and work all day monday andtuesday to match her working hours, the manager told her no without thinking and told her to think about it and to resign if she can keep her actual rota.

We can not afford her to lost her job as it is already hard for us with both of our salary.

She is working for Zara and they are open 7 days a week and they have got many shops around london and it s hard to understand why they can not cahnge her working hours. she has been working for them for over 3 years.

Is it any thing we can do ?

We are thinking of writting a letter to the head office and to explain them the situation. Does any one could hepl us to write a nice letter to send to them.

Thank you.

Kind regards

Thierry

Poppie68

Trying hard to unerstand why having more than one shop would make a difference?


If they allowed your wife to alter her hours they would then have to rearrange other peoples hours and days to accomodate your wife, and i can't see that being popular.

scheming_gypsy

Going over her bosses head and writing a letter to head office, will probably have the same outcome as resigning.

marybelle01

I'm sorry, but I have to agree. She (AND YOU!) have the right to ASK for flexible working but neither of you have the right to demand the hours you want, or to force other people to change their hours to suit your needs. It isn't reasonable to simply expect an employer to change hours for you because that is what you want. That isn't what the law allows for. I have to agree with Scheming Gypsy - there are possibly polite ways to discuss this, but writing to head office is almost certainly the fastest way to unemployment for your partner.

Can you not find someone in the family to care for your two year old for that time?

Savvy_Sue

I agree with what everyone else has said: your partner has the right to ask for a change of hours, but does not have the right to change her hours, and you getting a new job doesn't change that. If everyone could just change their hours whenever their personal situation changed, it would become impossible to manage staffing levels. However ...

pthierry2000 wrote: »

My partner explain all situation to her manager and asked her if she could change and work all day monday andtuesday to match her working hours, the manager told her no without thinking and told her to think about it and to resign if she can keep her actual rota.

that wasn't the way to request a change of hours: she should have put the request in writing, and I believe she still could. Take a look at this.

Now, she could make a request in writing, and the result's likely to be the same UNLESS your partner knows that there's someone who'd like to swap hours with her, and they can then together set out a plan which doesn't disrupt the needs of the business.